Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30365529-20170319014929/@comment-32452525-20171117184530

Weather Synchronize wrote: Bots Family 21 wrote: But what if Tess Parents or Jake Parents is a gym leader?
 * 1) How can someone survive after being stranded on an island for years?

I strongly agree that there is no way that the parents of our Rivals would be the Gym Leaders, it is possible Tess’s parents might’ve survived with the help of their Pokemon. There is (technecily) no proof against it. However, there is A very high chance they are dead.